Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Benjamin Strong, Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, is farther from the U. S. Government than his three banker visitors are from their governments. Their banks are the fiscal agents for England, France and Germany. In the U. S. the Treasury Department is the Government's money agent. In many cases and for many reasons it delegates its authority as agent to Federal Reserve banks, but those Federal Reserve banks are secondary, as it were, sub-agents of the Government. None the less Governor Strong as head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank wields financial authority...
...SCANDALOUS REPORT OP PARKER GILBERT" shrieked a Berlin headline last week, when Agent General ol Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert released his report on the first nine months of the third year of German reparations payments. Neutral observers found the report far from "scandalous," but instead meaty with facts, logical. They thought its measured language admirably typical of Mr. Gilbert, 34 but seasoned-a Baptist, a 1912 graduate of Rutgers College* and Harvard Law School, a U. S. Treasury "career man," and so conservative that he maintains a residence m the town of his birth: Bloomfield, N. J. Two Theses. Agent...
Finally Mr. Gilbert stigmatized the German practice of transferring nearly one-third of the revenue at the Federal Treasury to the treasuries of the various German states for ultimate expenditure. These transfers, declared Agent General Gilbert, are too often made without adequate investigation of the needs of the states thus aided, and so lead to state extravagance...
German Attitude. Since Seymour Parker Gilbert holds almost autocratic power in the field of Reparations, no German statesman dared to challenge his report last week; but at the Finance Ministry newsgatherers were guardedly informed The Government sees little opportunity of effecting the economies called for by the Agent General of Reparations...
Talk About Girls is a summer musical show, advertised by an honest press agent as "better than most," which is no panegyric. There are two impecunious fellows who masquerade in Lower Falls, Mass., as captains of industry. They are soothingly played these hot days by Andrew Tombes and Russell Mack. During their pretentious sojourn in the small town they become involved in a water power deal of large proportions, and love. The comedy consists of scrambling out of the mess of presumptions on the day of reckoning with a whole face and heart. From this the reader may have guessed...